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Harry Houdini: Tricks
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The Escapes & Illusions section provides illustrated descriptions of more than 30 of Houdini's tricks, including: the Sunken Box Escape, the Straight Jacket Escape, the Milk Can Escape, and the Chinese Water Torture Cell. One of his big successes was the Needle Trick, in which he would appear to swallow dozens of needles and some thread, and then regurgitate these with all the needles neatly threaded on.
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When Harry was nine, a circus arrived in town. He showed the manager his tricks and the man was so impressed with Harry's talent for releasing himself from rope ties, and picking up pins with his eyelids, that he hired him to perform while the circus was in town.
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Houdini had a great talent for self promotion and did his best to attract attention wherever he went. When on tour he offered money to people who could explain how he did certain tricks or if they could restrain him successfully. When on tour he bought a German biplane which was dismantled, transported and rebuilt in Australia where it was the first plane to be flown.
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No secrets to Houdini's tricks will be revealed here. What is revealed is the nature of the man himself and how much he and his breathtaking feats said about America in his time.
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